In the United States, many people feel strongly about what their kids and students should be taught in a science class- evolution or the bible's creation story. In 2005 in Kansas City, Kansas, the state's school board of education was questioning whether or not to teach Intelligent Design, the theory that an intelligent being created the universe and all living things, in their science curriculum. A man named Bobby Henderson who didn’t want Intelligent Design to be taught in schools sent a satirical letter to the board explaining that you can’t show favoritism to one God. He hoped that this would show the board that if you teach Intelligent Design you’d have to teach all religions including his belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, called
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No one except Himself was around to see it, but we suspect it was rather dull. The initial creation, of course, must have been spectacular, but our Noodly Creator then spent the next 10 to 100 years painstakingly preparing the universe to look older than it actually is. He placed fossils of dinosaurs under the Earth’s surface. Interestingly, dinosaurs did exist, but not millions of years ago. In reality they lived with us, alongside us, and occasionally on top of humans around 3 thousand years ago.
The Gospel also explained many other beliefs including the fact that pirates were actually peaceful explorers and were His Chosen People. Henderson noted the correlation between the number of pirates and global warming and came up with this graph---. People have also begun to put colanders on their heads to pay tribute to the flying Spaghetti Monster. Pastafarians end their prayers to the flying spaghetti monster by saying “r’amen.” Before it became famous, the Flying Spaghetti Monster was just satire that challenged the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools. Most Pastafarians really believe that students should be taught scientific theory in science classes. If they do teach Intelligent Design, then students have the right to learn about other theories. No matter what one’s personal beliefs are, it cannot be denied that Bobby Henderson significantly affected
No one except Himself was around to see it, but we suspect it was rather dull. The initial creation, of course, must have been spectacular, but our Noodly Creator then spent the next 10 to 100 years painstakingly preparing the universe to look older than it actually is. He placed fossils of dinosaurs under the Earth’s surface. Interestingly, dinosaurs did exist, but not millions of years ago. In reality they lived with us, alongside us, and occasionally on top of humans around 3 thousand years ago.
The Gospel also explained many other beliefs including the fact that pirates were actually peaceful explorers and were His Chosen People. Henderson noted the correlation between the number of pirates and global warming and came up with this graph---. People have also begun to put colanders on their heads to pay tribute to the flying Spaghetti Monster. Pastafarians end their prayers to the flying spaghetti monster by saying “r’amen.” Before it became famous, the Flying Spaghetti Monster was just satire that challenged the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools. Most Pastafarians really believe that students should be taught scientific theory in science classes. If they do teach Intelligent Design, then students have the right to learn about other theories. No matter what one’s personal beliefs are, it cannot be denied that Bobby Henderson significantly affected